RUSSIAN PORCELAIN VASE BY VIKTOR MIKHAILOVICH ZHBANOV, LOMONOSOV PORCELAIN FACTORY
CIRCA 1970
the vase of bulbous form tapering to a narrow neck, decorated with trees heavily laden with snow, on a dark grey ground, marked with factory mark and ‘Made in USSR, Hand Painted, Author V. Zhbanov’
25cm high
Note: Viktor Mikhailovich Zhbanov (1920-1988) was a leading artist of the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory. His works are preserved at the State Hermitage Museum and other Russian museum collections. For other vases by this artist, please see Galina Agarkova and Nataliya Petrova, 250 Years of Lomonosov Porcelain Manufacture St. Petersburg 1744-1994, St. Petersburg, 1994, p. 205.